Railway-tariff.



Patented Aug. 31, 1909.

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RAILWAY TARIFE.

APPLIUATION FILED MAR. 21, 1908.

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UNITED STATES ADIOS W. STANDING, 0F ST. LOUIS, MSSOURI.

RAILWAY-TARIFE To @ZL whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Anios Vil. S'rANmNG, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Tariffs, of which the following is a tull, clear, and eX- act description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My present invention relates to an ims provement upon railway tariffs shown and described in United States Letters Patent issued to me June 20th, 1899, No. 627358, and which tariff contemplated the displacement in taritl:z books ot tariff sheets by new sheets showing changes in tariff rates or other matters, in order that the tarid books should be kept up to date.

The present invention has in view the production of tari sheets ot the kind set forth in the patent mentioned, in such manner that the user ot the tariit may be turnished subsequent to the original issue ot the tariiir1 book, with reprinted sheets to be used in lieu of sheets previously present in the tariti' book, and which are so marked as to indicate the points at which they are to be introduced into the taritl book, and also so marked as to t'urnish continuous information to the recipient ot the number of other reprinted sheets that have been produced and which should precede any particular reprinted sheet.

The object, therefore, ot' the present im- 'Jrovement is to provide tarittl sheets so marked that cach reprinted sheet will serve as a check upon the previously issued reprinted sheets and act as a means of insuring the holders or" tariitn books that they have at all times been furnished with whatever reprinted sheets have been issued, and that their tarit books are complete to any Lparticular time.

The drawing is a view of a tariff sheet made in accordance with my present improvement.

The tarii' sheet shown in the accompanying drawing is in the main printed in accordance with the tariff sheets shown in my patent hereinbefore alluded to, and in so :tar as the general matter upon these sheets is concerned, there is no necessity for description herein. Mention may, however, be made of the fact that the tari'li0 sheet is provided with a space A in which memo- Speccation or Letters Patent.

Application filed tarch 21, 1908.

Patented Aug. 31, 1909.

Serial No. l22,551.

randa may be printed that indicate dates upon which certain altered rates of tarili are eltective.

T he reprinted sheets of my taritl are nuinbered according to the number otl the original 'beets to which they correspond in the tarirt book into which they are to be placed, thereby indicating the peints at which they are to be inserted into the book and to distinguish them from the original or previous sheets, each reprinted sheet has associated with its number, an auxiliary number or character which indicates that the sheet is a reprinted sheet and not an original sheet. Each reprinted sheet further bears memorandum that it cancels the sheet of the same num er which preceded it. rThe foregoing matter is illustrated at B in the drawing, the example there given being Page No. 1&2 canceling page 13-1.

En printing the original sheets for tariff books, l print thereupon in addition to the consecutive numbers ot the sheets pro numbers which are continued consecutively throughout the entire number of sheets. rifheretore, if the tariff book contains 100 original s ieets, these sheets will bear in addition to the regular Dago numbers pro numbers from 1 to 100 inclusive. ln producing the reprinted sheets that are to be introduced into the tariff bock, T print upon each reprinted sheet, a pro number that will immediately follow the preceding pro number and be consecutive therewith. Therefore, for example, it the original tariff book contains 1GO sheets bearing pro numbers from 1 to 100, the. iirst reprinted sheet would bear pro number 101 and the second reprinted sheet pro number 102, thus showing that two tariff sheets had been reprinted to be placed in the original tariil' book.

rlhe pro number upon each reprinted sheet is supplemented by p 1inting thereon reiterence to the number of the page upon which the previous pro number occurred and at with the last reprinted tariti sheet should appear in the original tarittI book. Take thereto-re, the example shown at C in the drawing which reads Pro number 11S previous pro number 430-1. This example indicates that in the instance of there being 10() original sheets in the tariff book there has been 18 tai-itt' sheets reprinted, the iirst of which reprinted sheets was numbered pro number 101 and the last pro number 118. Also that the reprinted sheet immediately preceding the last reprinted sheet and Which Was numbered 117 should be present in the original tariff book at page 50 t-herein and that it was preceded at this point by another reprinted sheet.

It will be seen that the memoranda printed upon the t ritt sheets to be used in the tariff book as herein contemplated, furnish adequate means that Will act as a check at all tiines to insure the user ot a. tarifiI book ot the number of tarit sheets that have been reprinted and Which should bc present in the copy or" tarittq book in his hands. This insurance is based upon the fact that Whenever the user of a tariff book receives a reprinted tariff sheet bearing a certain pro number, he may readily trace through his taril1 book for the purpose of learning` Whether all of the previously reprinted sheets have been received by hini or not, the only thing necesf sary to gain this knowledge being backward iictereneo from each last reprinted sheet to the page in the original book at which the sheet of previous pro number appears, and so on from that point by reference to each re-' printed sheet to the previous reprinted sheets until he has reached the sheet of the last pro number in the original book.

l. claim:

it plurality orP consecutively numbered sheets each containing a statement that it cancels a page, said statement reciting t-he page number ot the canceled page and the page nr iber for said sneet, said sheet also containingl a memorandum of the page nurnber of the sheet ot the next preceding one ot the consecutive numbers.

AMOS W. STANDING. In the presence of- LILY Rosr, BLANCHE HOGAN. 

